From: Steve Bryan <sbryan@vendorsystems.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 01:27:44 +0800
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: Re: FYI: More on WebTV security
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Has anyone hacked WebTV to enable a terminal to connect to a plain vanilla
ISP (or better yet a local ethernet) or is it inexorably tied to their
network of proxy servers? I get the impression that like a Newton or any
other graphically limited device a WebTV browser would have to be aided by
a proxy server that translates the content to more amenable form before it
can take a crack at it. If it were possible to divorce it from their
service it might be a nifty device for less than $100. This would become
especially appealing if 128 bit crypto were thrown into the bargain.

Steve Bryan
Vendorsystems International
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